Problem · Array
Kth Largest Element in an Array
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Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the kth largest element in sorted order.
Duplicate occurrences count separately. The answer is not the kth distinct value.
Function
findKthLargest(nums: int[], k: int) → intExamples
Example 1
nums = [3,2,1,5,6,4]k = 2return = 5Descending order is [6,5,4,3,2,1], so the second element is 5.
Example 2
nums = [3,2,3,1,2,4,5,5,6]k = 4return = 4The duplicate fives occupy two positions, and the fourth largest occurrence is 4.
Constraints
1 <= k <= nums.length <= 100000.-10000 <= nums[i] <= 10000.